Serenity up for voting in SciFi Wire poll by Kayna

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Serenity up for voting in SciFi Wire poll

POSTED BY: KAYNA
UPDATED: Sunday, April 2, 2006 13:40
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Saturday, March 25, 2006 7:24 PM

I love my captain

The poll asks "which movie should win a Hugo award for the best dramatic presentation, long form?"

There are some other good movies in there but I voted Serenity.

Here's the link.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/

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Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:11 PM

STROKINGMYPETER

YEAHHHH!!!!!!! we are in the lead!!!! only 31 votes thus far, but thats ok. all these firefly related polls are quite encouraging huh?

I WANT TO BELIEVE

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:27 AM

THEPISTONENGINE

bump -- vote or I kill. There is no even

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Carry the Nuttin'

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:35 AM

DANIELFYRE

How do you vote? I can't find the place to vote.

-Dan

Ain't that just shiny?

P.S. - How did Nathan lose by like 1.3 percent on that last one...That makes me sad.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:04 AM

FOLLOWMAL

On the right of the screen, Daniel.

And went and voted ....as of my vote we are in the lead with 52% with 248 votes.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 7:47 AM

THEPISTONENGINE

top left on the bar.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:04 AM

KAYNA

I love my captain

I thought Nathan won the last one? I'll have to check...nope, guess I was wrong. Damn. Still it was pretty close.

Keep voting folks.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:10 AM

JAMESTHEDARK

Serenity is currently dominating with 51% of the total votes... which number 381

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I ain't lookin' for help from on high. That's a damn long wait for a train don't come.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:17 AM

JOSSISAGOD

Serenity, Still 51% after my 2 cents! I had a hard time choosing between Batman Begins and Serenity, in the end Serenity came out on top!

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 12:25 PM

AZTECHROME

Even though Serenity (IMHO) doesn't have the time to do justice to the full span of the 'verse, it's still heads and shoulders above the rest of the candidates.
Batman Begins was a great movie, but I think it's primarily owing to the performance of Christian Bale, as well as execellent art design.
Serenity is a full-blown original sci-fi universe brought to the big screen with many unique plot textures that are unknown to sci-fi films today. (Although not books)
The firefly 'verse is so creative. If that's the criteria for judgement, Serenity should win hands down.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 12:52 PM

CHRISTHECYNIC

I cast my vote and it was at 51% then I went to check something on another page and came back to that page, it just jumped to 52%, hardly significant, but it is a good change.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 1:10 PM

FOLLOWMAL

Went and checked even though I had already voted and it's at 53% still and 610 votes.

I still think that all this attention that SciFi is paying to the movie and to Nathan Fillion is a good thing. They are connected to Universal and it can't hurt that these polls are getting lots of votes for our movie and our BDH.

Makes me smile!

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 1:24 PM

CHRISTHECYNIC

Damn those votes pile up fast don't they? Lets hope we keep on piling quicker than the others.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 3:24 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Keep up the voting folks. We can win this.

If we win enough of these polls then someone might start paying attention.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 4:04 PM

ANONYMOUS1

Quote:
Originally posted by DanielFyre:
How do you vote? I can't find the place to vote.

Be sure to click on the button for Serenity before you click on the vote button or you will be voting for Batman Begins by default.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 4:20 PM

RAVENHAIR

Just voted.

52% and holding!

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:52 PM

NOSADSEVEN

Quote:
Originally posted by DanielFyre:
How do you vote? I can't find the place to vote.

It won't let me vote, either. It just loads up the results.

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Ain't. We. Just.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:05 PM

WOLFINSHEPHERDSCLOTHING

Got my vote in, too!
52% on the nose!

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:06 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Yes! We have taken the early lead with more than twice the votes of our nearest contender. That's Batman Begins at 24%.

We can't just rest on our laurels though. We have to keep voting all week long.

I have to admit that I really do like two of the other movies on that list. For the hell of it, I'll discuss them here.

Batman Begins really brought life back to a failing franchise (I'm mean the movies. I know nothing about the comics). And I thought that there was some great acting in it. Most notably from Christian Bale as the Dark Knight and from the villans. Liam Neeson and Cillian Murphy were just amazing. I have to say that I would love to see the Scarecrow return. Mr. Murphy seems to play crazy quite well.

I also liked The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (I will not call it The Chronicals of Narnia. That is the name of the series, not the single story). It was visually stuning and, I think, did a fantastic job of translating the book. My biggest problem was what they did to Susan. That was not the character in the book.

As much as I liked both of those movies though, I didn't even notice that they were on the list untill after I had voted.

All I saw was Serenity.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:22 PM

GARIM

1047 votes now. Serenity in the lead with 52%, with Batman Begins at 24%, and the rest far behind :)

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Monday, March 27, 2006 7:52 AM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Gah!!

I just checked and we're falling. We're now at 50% with BB gaining ground with 26%.

We cannot let this happen!

We must vote. Vote like you've never voted before!

Sorry. I got a little over enthusiastic. Seriously though. Go vote.

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Monday, March 27, 2006 12:33 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Oh God! Batman's still gaining! It's currently at 27% with Serenity falling to 47%.

Sorry for the double post. I just don't want this tfread to get buried until the week is out and the vote is done.

Go vote! Weeeeeeeee!

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:07 PM

FOLLOWMAL

I agree Kayna! Go vote Browncoats!

C'mon are we gonna let Batman win?

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:53 PM

FOLLOWMAL

It fell off the front page again.....

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:12 PM

BANZAIBILL

bump, de bump, bump, buuummmmp!

I voted! We're still holding at 47%. Batman was good, but come on! The BDM wins hands down...

*** Think of it as evolution in action ***

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:26 PM

COPILOT

48% Baby!

An I carried such a torch

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:09 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain

All right! Moving up, even a single point is good.

Keep voting folks. We can win this thing.

Let's show them that browncoats will never give up.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:19 PM

LADYFINGER007

I just voted. Its at 48% right now.

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:31 AM

KAYNA

I love my captain

We're back down to 47%

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:52 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Time to bump again.

Come on folks! The weeks not even half over!
Keep voting on this thing.

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 2:56 PM

FOLLOWMAL

Wednesday evening and time to remind everyone to vote!

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:07 PM

RESE

It's 12:03 am, Wednesday. Just came from voting; the total amount of votes is 8,932 and holding at 48%.

Keep it moving, ya'll!

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:44 AM

SUCHISLIFE

Holding at 48% after 9016 votes

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:16 AM

KAYNA

I love my captain

9,562 votes. We continue to hold at 48%. Let's keep it up.

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:51 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Bumpady bump.
Keep voting.

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:36 PM

LVS2READ

Finally able to vote! We're still holding at 48%!

"I love my captain."

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Friday, March 31, 2006 7:19 AM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Still at 48% with 11,245 votes in.
Come on folks. We've only got two days left. Let's really make an impact.
I know we're already winnig by a fair margin but if we can increace our lead to something amazing it might just catch some attention.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 7:33 AM

ZOID

"Batman Begins" was the only other serious contestant, as far as I'm concerned. Having seen all the other entrants as well -- with the exception of "Wallace and Grommit", and how did that get nominated for a freakin' Hugo?! -- I can say I voted "Serenity" with no hesitation, and feel fully justified in doing so.

"Harry Potter and the 'Gobbler' of Fire" was a good story for the worldly-unwise. "Batman Begins" breathed a new life into a franchise gone to seed; but do ya' really care? Only "Serenity" had the full-boat: novel characters, story and ideological concepts. It's a film for people who want fresh ideas and voices. And isn't that what the Hugo is really supposed to represent: novel (meaning 'original') science fiction/fantasy storytelling?

Respectfully,

zoid

P.S.
"The Chronicles of Narnia": a kiddy story; or a thinly veiled religious propaganda vehicle, your choice. Brought to us by Disney, with their usual flair for the obvious. Ugh...

P.P.S.
Where the aitch-eee-double-hockey-sticks is "King Kong"? With the exception of a couple of stretches of CGI-overuse, that was a great, dark story. Naomi Watts can convey more with a look than most actors can say with a thousand words... And don't tell me it couldn't get considered because of its release date, either. I got dragged into TCoN,tLtW&tW by my kids (in conspiracy with my wife), when I really wanted to see 'Kong'. So, that's no excuse.
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

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Saturday, April 1, 2006 7:53 AM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Since it's the last day to vote on this, I thought that I would bump this thread so we can get in some last minute votes for the BDM

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Sunday, April 2, 2006 10:48 AM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Yes! We won with 50.1% of the votes!
There were 13,008 votes in all and half of them were cast for Serenity.

I just had to gloat about it a little.

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Sunday, April 2, 2006 11:28 AM

FOLLOWMAL

Thanks Kayna, for keeping the voting and this thread alive.

I wonder, will SciFi's next poll be Firefly oriented too? Seems like they've had a few of them be lately.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Sunday, April 2, 2006 1:40 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain

Aww, thanks FollowMal. And thanks to all who helped give our BDM that landslide win.

And sadly it looks like the new poll has nothing to do with the verse. It's about the ST TV show.

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